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Our town and civic duty

Chapter 150: HOW TO MAKE A RED CROSS EMBLEM
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A school reader for elementary pupils offers short stories, adapted tales, and practical lessons that introduce civic virtues such as courage, self-control, thrift, perseverance, kindness to animals, and patriotism. It then profiles public servants—police, mail carriers, firemen, street cleaners, and sanitation workers—to illustrate dependence, interdependence, and community cooperation. Subsequent sections address personal and public safety, sanitation, and insect control, and conclude with guidance on Junior Red Cross activities and patriotic service. Teacher notes recommend dramatization, discussion, and hands-on projects to connect classroom learning with daily civic habits and to encourage respect for public institutions and duties.

HOW TO MAKE A RED CROSS EMBLEM


Red Cross Emblem

The cutting of a Red Cross emblem with one stroke of the scissors is a thing quite easy to master. Fold over a piece of paper six inches square until the lower left-hand corner meets the upper right-hand corner, and the paper forms a triangle measuring 8 × 6 × 6 inches. With the longest side toward you, fold the lower right-hand point until it rests on the lower left-hand point, making a triangle 6 × 4¼ × 4¼ inches. Repeat the process, making a triangle 4¼ × 3 × 3 inches. From the point marked A in the illustration measure one inch toward B. From this point draw a line parallel with the fold marked A—C. Using a pair of sharp scissors, cut along this line, unfold the paper and you will have a perfect cross. For emblems varying in size merely increase or decrease the measurements.